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1. .0. JOHNSON.

Axle Skein. v

Patented Nov. 30, 1869.

NPETERIB, PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASRINGTON. DIG.

'Tbhll whom it may concern Be 'itknownfthat I, JOHN O. JOHNSON, of Golthat fittin s that emu,

' Letters Patent N0.'97,408, dated Not-ember 30, 1869 IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-exams;

The Eohedlile referred to in these Letters Patent and making pa'rt of the same.

conda, in the county of Pope, in the State of Illinois,

have invented a new and improved Wagon-Skein;-

and I do. hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists of a skein, marked B, made of wrought-iron or steel, of onefourth to three-eighths of an inch in thickness, which, from the end, (nut E,) for the distance of about-two inches, is solid; from thence to the hunter-hand or 001- lar .G is open or'hollow. w

v The Wooden axle-treeis driven into the skein until the end shall have passed the hole for the bolt a, which passes through both the wood and the skein.

The hurter-band, or collar 0, is then shrunk on orer the skein, closing it around the axle-tree' The skein also extends back of the hurterband, or

collar, on the top and. bottom of the axle-tree, and is fastened with an iron bolt, (1, through the axle-tree,

The box 0 of the wheel is'seonred by an iron ring, D fastened by the bolt 11, passing through the hole a, and the whole secured by the nut' E, screwed on the end of the skein.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination and arrangement of a wroughtirouor s'teel skein, B, with a wooden axle-tree, A, se-: cured by an iron hurter-band or collar, 0, and theironbolt 1?, with the combination of the nut E with the boltb passing through the box 0, secured ,by the iron jring-I), and the solid end of the axle-tree A, in the inanner and forthe purposes herein specified, JOHN G. JOHNSON.

Witnesses J mm M. RAUM,

J. B. PERRY, 

